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There's A Devious Way To Help Get Donald Trump Out Of Office

It's a highly effective and proven tactic that will make space for Joe Biden to smash Trump into oblivion in November.

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Ben Cohen
Jul 01, 2020
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by Ben Cohen

By all accounts, Donald Trump’s bid for re-election in 2020 is in very, very serious trouble. So much trouble in fact, that Trump is openly talking about Biden becoming the next President, and may even be mulling quitting the race altogether if things do not turn around. His poll numbers are in the toilet and getting worse, the Coronavirus pandemic is surging under his leadership (again), and most sensible economists are predicting a prolonged recession with severe job losses.

This is not a great record to be running on four months out from an election.

There are several steps Trump needs to take to turn things around:

  1. A very basic point: Trump needs to start wearing a mask in public to reassure the nation he is taking the Coronavirus pandemic seriously (Presidents are, unsurprisingly, supposed to lead by example). While this would annoy his cult worshippers, it might convince independents he wasn’t completely insane.

  2. Trump needs to actually take the Coronavirus seriously,…

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